Speaker 1: In studio Heart for Seniors. It's a link on my
Speaker 1: blog page fifty five care see dot com. Grab that microphone,
Speaker 1: have a seat because we can talk. Welcome back, Patty,
Speaker 1: Patty Scott from Heart for Seniors. I was really impressed
Speaker 1: when you were here and as I discussed the last
Speaker 1: time Heart for Seniors was in studio, Patty's wonderful organization. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I thought of my father who was in a dementia facility,
Speaker 1: and I know what he went through, and in spite
Speaker 1: of the fact that we viewed it as a good facility,
Speaker 1: and I'm not don't want to be critical of the
Speaker 1: people that provided the care for him, but if I
Speaker 1: just my heart breaks my mom. She was there every
Speaker 1: single day, and I know it was because she was
Speaker 1: there every single day that he got probably better care
Speaker 1: than he would have gotten had she not been there
Speaker 1: every single day. And one of the problems, and you
Speaker 1: outlined it so well previously, so much so that I
Speaker 1: gave you a contribution to your organization. All right, we
Speaker 1: appreciate it was my pleasure to do it. You have
Speaker 1: a software and technology that can make sure folks who
Speaker 1: are literally lying in their own juices if you know
Speaker 1: what I mean alert the staff that that's the patient
Speaker 1: that needs the immediate service.
Speaker 2: It seems so simple, so simple.
Speaker 1: Explain how that works back.
Speaker 3: Well, so it's all about alert response technology, right, because
Speaker 3: if we don't know something's occurring, right, we can't fix it.
Speaker 3: And this industry, as we said last time, has seen
Speaker 3: no technology. And we know healthcare workers are stretched then
Speaker 3: and especially at a nursing home level. Yeah, they just
Speaker 3: don't have the staff at night, weekends, nights and weekends well,
Speaker 3: but not.
Speaker 1: The most highly compensated positions. And that's saddle into that.
Speaker 1: You know, honestly, you're going to be in charge of
Speaker 1: bringing up after seniors and bathing them and showering them.
Speaker 1: To get somebody to even agree to do that as
Speaker 1: for a living, to me, that would cost a lot
Speaker 1: more than what they're currently making on an hourly basis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 3: It's sad and so I hate to say this, but
Speaker 3: a lot of nursing staff averages, especially on the weekend,
Speaker 3: is one st anda to a whole pod which could
Speaker 3: be thirty four patients and real human being one and
Speaker 3: they're technically protocols are every two hours, so they need
Speaker 3: to go in and check every two hours.
Speaker 2: I mean, do the math. The math just doesn't work. No,
Speaker 2: it couldn't.
Speaker 3: So with alert response technology, what's great about it is
Speaker 3: if you're incontinent, let's just take that for example, there's
Speaker 3: a special patented brief and there's a little module that
Speaker 3: goes on the brief and there's a cell phone that
Speaker 3: the st anda carries around with them. So think about
Speaker 3: before if they'd have to go into the room every
Speaker 3: two hours and check, put their hand down or round
Speaker 3: the brief. Which where's the dignity in that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So now it alerts their phone and they can
Speaker 3: go in, they go bedside, they just take the phone,
Speaker 3: they detach, they check, it's it's fool proof, it's perfect.
Speaker 3: It's alert response technology. You're alerted, you respond, and then
Speaker 3: you fix the issue.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just thinking, and we'll take a break here,
Speaker 1: we'll bring it back. But you could be on the
Speaker 1: two hour schedule. If you're the provider, you walk in
Speaker 1: and you check them and everything's fine, and the moment
Speaker 1: you walk out the door, that's when they experience the
Speaker 1: incontinence and they're gonna be laying there for at least
Speaker 1: a couple of hours. And if not a lot longer.
Speaker 1: Average is twelve twelve hours, twelve hours, and there are
Speaker 1: a lot of complications that go along with lying around
Speaker 1: and st doing your own juicues for that period of time.
Speaker 1: We'll bring back Patty. Let me pause right now for
Speaker 1: these brief words. I'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Fifty five KRC dot com. Your hands work hard, tex.
Speaker 1: Heay, very happy Friday to you. And I got Patty
Speaker 1: and studio Patty Scott from Heart the number four seniors
Speaker 1: dot org and they have this amazing technology to help
Speaker 1: ensure that these seniors in these various living facilities are
Speaker 1: going to get the attention they need when they soil themselves.
Speaker 1: And it's a real problem, but a real time it's happened.
Speaker 1: Software alerts the caregiver to the cell phone so they
Speaker 1: know exactly what you patient to check on. There's no
Speaker 1: rotating schedule, and obviously these senior facilities are overwhelmed. Would
Speaker 1: you say one caregiver for maybe thirty people on.
Speaker 2: A week a week is kind of a normal weekend night.
Speaker 1: And this is a huge issue. You said off air,
Speaker 1: how many millions of seniors are going to be in
Speaker 1: these facilities?
Speaker 3: One hundred and twenty eight million seniors is what we
Speaker 3: have in the United States right now, one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty eight million. One point three million of them are
Speaker 3: already in long term care. As we speak, fifteen million
Speaker 3: of them are being taken care of their homes.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, And this technology could be rolled out in
Speaker 1: a home environment.
Speaker 3: Right, absolutely, yeah, absolutely, it can be rolled out in
Speaker 3: a home environment. It's alert response technology, So right now
Speaker 3: there's a risk wearable. There's a brief that's special technology
Speaker 3: that can alert. We also, bing bing binged this week
Speaker 3: are rolling out a call light. So imagine how many
Speaker 3: times people are sitting there and pish their call light
Speaker 3: and they never show up. So the call lights are
Speaker 3: being implemented this week. We actually also are working on
Speaker 3: something for dehydration. Dehydration is a huge issue. Oh sure,
Speaker 3: toxicity if they're not dehydrated and they're taking how many
Speaker 3: meds and things like that. Think about the diabetes right now,
Speaker 3: Like a Libra three, right, it's if somebody's wearing a
Speaker 3: Libra three there, the alert is sitting bedside, it's gonna alert.
Speaker 2: Well if nobody's around, who's going to see it?
Speaker 1: And again, going back to my father when he's experiencing
Speaker 1: his worst phases of stages of Alzheimer's dementia. He wouldn't
Speaker 1: know to reach over and press a button.
Speaker 2: Right, right.
Speaker 3: So we also are working on thermal imaging where we
Speaker 3: can actually not even have to have anything on a
Speaker 3: patient and it can just be sitting in the room
Speaker 3: and it can take everything from pollox to blood pressure,
Speaker 3: can uncover tachycardia, any and all. So, I mean, at
Speaker 3: the end of the day, here's the issue, right, there's
Speaker 3: a crisis. We're in four facilities right now in the
Speaker 3: state of Ohio. The gold this year is to be
Speaker 3: in fifty. The only thing the technology is there. The
Speaker 3: only thing that is holding this technology back truly is
Speaker 3: just funding.
Speaker 2: But here's the catch.
Speaker 3: How much, Brian, do you think it costs for a caregiver,
Speaker 3: a resident to have a Heart for Seniors technology system
Speaker 3: ecosystem around them.
Speaker 1: I have no way of knowing.
Speaker 3: Twelve dollars and sixty three cents, Oh my god, forty
Speaker 3: seven hundred dollars a year.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: So and I want to thank from the bottom of
Speaker 1: my heart because last time Hart for Seniors was on
Speaker 1: they you ended up getting like three thousand dollars from.
Speaker 2: My listeners we did, and a donation from you.
Speaker 1: Well, I know I wasn't trying toot my own horn,
Speaker 1: but you know this, and these were small contributions folks
Speaker 1: you have in the listening audience. Twenty dollars here, ten
Speaker 1: dollars there. It all adds up. Every little bit counts,
Speaker 1: like a flea urinating in the Pacific Ocean, all everything,
Speaker 1: every little bit counts. So you can reach out to
Speaker 1: Heart number four Seniors dot org and help contribute to
Speaker 1: this wonderful cause. And I want to see you in
Speaker 1: all the senior facilities.
Speaker 2: We need to be because well.
Speaker 1: It benefits the caregivers that are there. They're not going
Speaker 1: around doing make work on a schedule. They're going to
Speaker 1: actually where people need the care that is correct. It's
Speaker 1: such a simple solution. It just blows my mind that
Speaker 1: it hasn't been rolled out more across the board. It's
Speaker 1: a way for senior facilities to save money and provide
Speaker 1: better care and be more efficient.
Speaker 3: The other thing that the show and you have helped
Speaker 3: us with is there were several what are called discharge
Speaker 3: planners at hospitals. So discharge planners are the ones that
Speaker 3: have this heavy burden, right they're sending off patients from
Speaker 3: hospitals they don't know really what they're sending off to
Speaker 3: and where they're sending off to.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right.
Speaker 3: So we've been able to we've been able to visit
Speaker 3: a couple of hospitals since your last show and actually
Speaker 3: shared the technology with the discharge planners. They're just like,
Speaker 3: you've got to be kidding, mind blown, mind blown that
Speaker 3: this even exists. I know, And it's just the dignity
Speaker 3: and the care. I mean, it's saving lives without question.
Speaker 1: And you went through some of the horror stories of
Speaker 1: folks who are neglected and have the neglected. It doesn't
Speaker 1: take a whole lot of imagination to realize what that
Speaker 1: neglect can bring about.
Speaker 3: People are sitting in their urine and feces for over
Speaker 3: twelve to eighteen hours. That turns to skin breakdown bacteria,
Speaker 3: including sepsis, which then takes you back to a hospital
Speaker 3: where you're going to Keep in mind, hospitals get paid,
Speaker 3: oh regardless whether you're there five days or seven days,
Speaker 3: but they try to send you right back and it's
Speaker 3: just this cycle that just tens.
Speaker 1: And thousands of dollars just to walk into the hospital
Speaker 1: Patty Scott of Heart four Seniors, Heart the number four
Speaker 1: seniors dot org, check them out, help them out, and
Speaker 1: thanks to all of my listeners who did that last
Speaker 1: time around. What a wonderful organization. Got a break now, Patty,
Speaker 1: because we're gonna catch ourselves A crime stopper Bad Guy
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